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Sabbioneta is a town in Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
, northern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, in the province of Mantua
Province of Mantua

The Province of Mantua is a Provinces of Italy in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Mantua....
, about 30 km north of Parma
Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its architecture and the fine countryside around it. It is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
, not far from the northern bank of the Po River
Po River

The Po is a river that flows 652 km eastward across northern Italy, from Monviso to the Adriatic Sea near Venice. It has a drainage area of 71,000 km? and is the longest river in Italy....
. It was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2008. Sabbioneta was founded by Vespasiano I Gonzaga
Vespasiano I Gonzaga

Vespasiano I Gonzaga was an Italian nobleman, diplomat, writer, military engineer and condottiero. He is especially remembered as a patron of the arts and the founder of Sabbioneta, a town in Lombardy designed according to the Renaissance principles of the "Ideal City"....
 in the late 16th century along the ancient Roman Via Vitelliana, on a sandy bank of the Po (whence the name, meaning "Sandy" in Italian; he was its first duke, using it as a personal fortress and residence.






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Sabbioneta is a town in Lombardy
Lombardy

Lombardy is one of the 20 regions of Italy. The capital is Milan. One-sixth of Italy's population lives in Lombardy and about one fifth of Italy's GDP is produced in this region....
, northern Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, in the province of Mantua
Province of Mantua

The Province of Mantua is a Provinces of Italy in the Lombardy region of Italy. Its capital is the city of Mantua....
, about 30 km north of Parma
Parma

Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its architecture and the fine countryside around it. It is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
, not far from the northern bank of the Po River
Po River

The Po is a river that flows 652 km eastward across northern Italy, from Monviso to the Adriatic Sea near Venice. It has a drainage area of 71,000 km? and is the longest river in Italy....
. It was inscribed on the World Heritage List in 2008. Sabbioneta was founded by Vespasiano I Gonzaga
Vespasiano I Gonzaga

Vespasiano I Gonzaga was an Italian nobleman, diplomat, writer, military engineer and condottiero. He is especially remembered as a patron of the arts and the founder of Sabbioneta, a town in Lombardy designed according to the Renaissance principles of the "Ideal City"....
 in the late 16th century along the ancient Roman Via Vitelliana, on a sandy bank of the Po (whence the name, meaning "Sandy" in Italian; he was its first duke, using it as a personal fortress and residence. It was also during this period that it became a minor musical centre; composers such as Benedetto Pallavicino
Benedetto Pallavicino

Benedetto Pallavicino was an Italy composer and organist of the late Renaissance music. A prolific composer of madrigal s, he was resident at the House of Gonzaga court of Mantua in the 1590s, where he was a close associate of Giaches de Wert, and a competitor of his considerably more famous contemporary Claudio Monteverdi....
 were employed here by Vespasiano Gonzaga, prior to his moving to the main Gonzaga city of Mantua
Mantua

Mantua is a city in Lombardy, Italy and capital of the Province of Mantua of the same name.Mantua is surrounded on three sides by artificial lakes created during the 12th century....
.

The town is also known for its Jewish Ghetto
Ghetto

A ghetto is described as a "portion of a city in which members of a minority group live especially because of social, legal, or economic pressure."...
 and Synagogue, and in particular for its Hebrew
Hebrew language

Hebrew is a Semitic languages of the Afro-Asiatic languages. Modern Hebrew is spoken by more than seven million people in Israel and Classical Hebrew is used for prayer or study in Jews communities around the world....
 printing-press. In 1567 set up the press; he had, however, published certain "anti-Christian books" and his career was "forcibly ended". His work and possibly his type were taken up by a Christian
Christian

A Christian is a person who adheres to Christianity, a Monotheism#Christian view religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus and interpreted by Christians to have been prophesied in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament....
 printer, .

Main sights

Vespasiano Gonzaga's town, designed according to the Renaissance principles of the Ideal City, included:

  • The Ducal Palace (now the Town Hall)
  • The theatre, designed by Vincenzo Scamozzi
    Vincenzo Scamozzi

    Vincenzo Scamozzi was an Republic of Venice architect and a writer on architecture, active mainly in Vicenza and Venice area in the second half of the 16th century....
  • The Galleria degli Antichi ("Gallery of the Ancient").
  • Palazzo del Giardino ("Garden Palace")
  • Churches of the Assunta, Incoronata and Carmine


The church and the summer palace contain frescoes by artists of the Campi
Campi

Campi may refer to:...
 family of Cremona
Cremona

Cremona is a city in northern Italy, situated in Lombardy, on the left shore of the Po River in the middle of the Pianura Padana . It is the capital of the province of Cremona and the seat of the local City and Province governments....
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